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Amoeblog posts marked with time travel.Still Life: Telling Time in La Jetee with Henri Bergson, The Human Torch and EC's Weird Science<blockquote>
<p>The prisoners were subjected to experiments, apparently of great concern to those who conducted them.&nbsp; The outcome was a disappointment for some - death for others - and for others yet, madness.&nbsp; One day they came to select a new guinea pig from among the prisoners.&nbsp; He was the man whose story we are telling.&nbsp; He was frightened. He had heard about the Head Experimenter. He was prepared to meet Dr. Frankenstein, or the Mad Scientist. Instead, he met a reasonable man who explained calmly that the human race was doomed. Space was off-limits. The only hope for survival lay in Time. A loophole in Time, and then maybe it would be possible to reach food, medicine, sources of energy.&nbsp; This was the aim of the experiments: to send emissaries into Time, to summon the Past and Future to the aid of the Present.&nbsp; But the human mind balked at the idea. To wake up in another age meant to be born again as an adult. The shock would be too great.&nbsp; Having only sent lifeless or insentient bodies through different zones of Time, the inventors where now concentrating on men given to very strong mental images. If they were able to conceive or dream another time, perhaps they would be able to live in it.&nbsp; The camp police spied even on dreams.&nbsp; This man was selected from among a thousand for his obsession with an image from the past.<em> </em>-- <a target="_blank" href="http://www.devildingo.net/marker_DD%20Ranch/html/chrisMarker_LaJetee.htm">Narrator</a>, <em><strong>La Jet&eacute;e</strong></em></p>
<p>I hate temporal mechanics! -- <a target="_blank" href="http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Time_travel">Miles O'Brien</a>, <em><strong>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine</strong></em></p>
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<p>Thanks to YouTube, I finally got around to watching <em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqMEc0oe4yc" target="_blank">La Jet&eacute;e</a></em> by <strong>Chris Marker</strong>. Perhaps most surprising after all the ink that's been spilled analyzing this experimental work is how much it resembles the old science fiction stories of <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EC_Comics">EC</a>'s <strong><em>Weird Science</em>.</strong>&nbsp; T<img height="168" width="120" align="left" alt="" style="border: 8px solid white;" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Charles/weird-science-cover-5.jpg" />hese stories -- like the majority of those from EC -- featured some twist ending that followed along like fate from whatever course of action the protagonist chose in the beginning.&nbsp;</p><div style="clear: both;"><a style="font-size:13px;" href="/blog/2008/03/writings-from-the-holy-texan/still-life-telling-time-in-la-jetee-with-henri-bergson-the-human-torch-and-ec-s-weird-science.html">Continue reading...</a></div>http://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2008/03/writings-from-the-holy-texan/still-life-telling-time-in-la-jetee-with-henri-bergson-the-human-torch-and-ec-s-weird-science.html
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